Urlacher and Briggs - true Klingon Warriors

by James on January 16th, 2007

NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest.

Lance Briggs and Brian Urlacher going to a team meeting

The NFL Playoffs are here and it is getting darn serious. The Chicago Bears will be hosting the New Orleans Saints this weekend in an epic battle that will determine the NFC Conference representative in the Super Bowl.

Lions and Bears

Is this difficult for a Lions fan to see the Bears going to the NFL Conference finals?

No.

Lion’s fans by and large are not anti Bears. Heck, we love Mike Ditka.

When you get right down to it,… your gallivanting author has had several favorite ball players through the years. One of those players is Dick Butkus and he used to kill my Lions.

What was great about Butkus wasn’t his skill, talent, desire, will, or any of that stuff. No. What was great about Dick Butkus is that he was always ferocious. Always coming at you. He used to make stuff up in his head to get angry and then focus all of that on his opponent.

Bear’s fans heading to tailgate party

Now we have Brian Urlacher and Lance Briggs. Lance had 134 tackles. Brian had 142 tackles.

Lance was a second team All Pro. Brian was first team All Pro.

Gotta love the Urlacher selfless breakdown of the Seattle victory.

“We won, that’s how I evaluate it,” All-Pro linebacker Brian Urlacher said.

Urlacher had plenty of help.

Late in the fourth quarter, linebacker Lance Briggs pumped his fist and jumped around after stopping Shaun Alexander on fourth-and-1. Then in the closing seconds of regulation, Tank Johnson shot through the line and sacked Matt Hasselbeck. source

Briggs, Urlacher, and the Bears defense play with passion, play with grit, play with your mind. They compose one of the roughest toughest units of all time and they are coming after you!

It is too bad the Baltimore Ravens were knocked out of the playoffs by Indy. If the Ravens great defense had played in the Super bowl against the Bears great defense the score might have gone into the negatives.

John Mullin of the Chicago Tribune rated the linebackers in the Seattle game.

Linebackers
Lance Briggs led both teams with 11 tackles and his stop of Alexander for a two-yard loss at the Chicago 44 with 2 minutes remaining ended a potential game-winning Seattle drive. Hunter Hillenmeyer deflected a pass in the end zone and Brian Urlacher had a quarterback hit and pass deflection in the deep middle to go with six tackles.
Grade: A- source

Err, A-?

Upon further questioning, John admitted that no arms were broken, few helmets were crushed in, and not one opponent cried for his Mommy. That is why he gave the minus.

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The poll continues with a few less teams. Hate to get out the pain sticks, but Brian Urlacher says you have to vote or he will crush you!

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